Over the last few years we’ve been filming more and more wedding videos in Brisbane and it really is a fantastic place for weddings. The urban settings, the great venues and so many green spaces to go for a photo-shoot too.

Kathryn and Steve were a lot of fun. The girls were getting ready at the Brisbane Sofitel, the Hair and makeup was done by Lila Boheme in their lovely studio. The venue of the ceremony and reception was at the awesome Bleeding Heart gallery. The ladies form Milque photography were great to work with again!

One of the funniest garter dances I’ve seen in a along time! For the full Highlights clip visit our vimeo page: https://vimeo.com/53562389

Kathryn had some great feedback:

Steve and I just wanted to say a huge thank you for being there to capture our wedding day on film. We absolutely loved the highlights video, it is a perfect reminder to our day and it looks so amazing! We could not stop watching it (and still can’t!).
 
Everyone who has seen it has complimented on how beautiful and professional our wedding video looks. It is like our on personal film clip, and by incorporating the music from our day so seamlessly, it made it even more special to us.
 
We could go on about how wonderful and professional you are, but we think your work speaks for itself.
 
Thank you again for making our wedding such a lovely, special and memorable day.
 
Yours Sincerely,
Kat & Steve Tauzowski

Byron Bay and Bangalow offer such amazing backdrops to film weddings. The Mackney Farm has the most incredible fig tree and location for a wedding, so we felt especially lucky to have the opportunity to film Leanne and Sam Wedding where Leanne grew up.

There was lots of music, sunshine and laughs all day. It really felt fantastic. We went to a nearby farm where we could have a good view of the Cape Byron lighthouse and make the most of the sunset.

Enjoy this Byron Bay and Bangalow Wedding clip:

basic for shooting a wedding mini clip

We’ve started up the Wild Bunch wedding video school again. After few courses for photographer friends we went official and ran our first couple of courses in Sydney and Brisbane this year. We’ve had great feedback and it seems to be a skill a lot of wedding photographers want to incorporate into their wedding services.
Why would we run a wedding video school you may ask? The reality is that video and photography are very different and if couples want a full wedding film then videographers are needed. But many of the basic principles cross over and there is no reason that a mini film cannot be created to music by a photographer. It’s not that hard with a few simple techniques.

We offer half day courses which will equip you with the essential filming techniques and our, pocket guide and info pack as a reference. There are a few other courses which go more in depth covering more filming, audio recording and editing also. So if you are interested in our DSLR mini film course or an introduction to wedding video shooting and editing, then register your interest with us on our website.

In the meantime we will be posting some useful tips and tools to for anyone interested in getting into filming. Our first one is here about some essential free bits of software for photographers and film makers alike:

I find these days that most of us do more than one thing. That is, as creatives we have to be multi-hyphenates: we write, we direct, we shoot, we edit, we blog, we launch web sites… and with few exceptions, most of these creative pursuits are aided by software. While I’m usually working in Adobe or Apple’s pro applications, there are always some free applications in the toolkit as well. So I thought I’d share some free cross-platform applications that I’ve found handy, in case any of them are new to you. Here are several free programs useful for creatives:

Handbrake
If you’re ripping a DVD these days, I doubt you’re outputting to a blank DVD — instead, you’re probably exporting to a file on your laptop, Apple TV, media server, or mobile device. Handbrake is your best bet for converting an old-fashioned disc into a high-quality (legal or illegal… ) copy. Also cross-platform (Mac, Windows, etc).

VLC Player
VLC is free video player. You know how sometimes if you try to open a video in Windows Media Player or Quicktime it won’t play? VLC handles many more formats than either of those default video players. As they say on the VLC site, “it plays everything!” Works pretty well on underpowered computers, as well. Free on all OSes.

Audacity
GarageBand ships with every new Mac and is great for recording music. But if you’d like a simpler way to record audio for, say, a podcast or interview, Audacity is a free (and lighter) alternative. It records live audio from any source, imports and exports a variety of formats, and allows you to apply a variety of filters and edit multitrack audio. It’s cross-platform software that is available for Mac, PC and Linux.

MPEG Streamclip
Now that Quicktime Pro has gone the way of the dodo, Apple’s own native video application has gotten a bit over-simplified in its video-conversion abilities. MPEG Streamclip steps in as a great free transcoding app. It’s a great option for batch-conversion of files as well (as I mention in the DSLR Guide). Mac and Windows.

Cyberduck
If you have your own website you’re probably transferring files to and from the site using an FTP program. Cyberduck is an often-updated, free Mac FTP app.

That’ll do it for now – hope you found some of those useful. If there are other good free programs that you use to create, let me know and I’ll add them to the list. These were just some free apps to get started, but going forward we’re going to broaden our horizons considerably…

It’s been great weather over the spring period and we’ve been in full swing doing what we love best! This 1 cameraman wedding looks great, the light was spectacular. Many thanks to AKA Weddings who were awesome! I’ve since seen their pics and stunning albums we were very impressed!

Many more films to come over the next few weeks so keep your eyes peeled.

When Nadia from Lovebird Weddings asked us to film her wedding we were very flattered and immediately said yes! She had fallen in love with a young Englishman called Andrew and were flying from the top to bottom of the world to see each other as much as they could.

We knew the styling would be amazing. Justin did a great job of capturing the intimacy, the simple beauty and the deep feelings of the day. There may have even been a few tears rolling down my keyboard also. Many thanks to Feather and Stone who are amazing to work with and very talented photographers, Mondo Floral Design who do such beautiful flowers, Sails Restaurant who are simply one of the coolest places to have a reception.

Enjoy!

A great part of this job is seeing some incredible locations, as private venues go this one was one of the most breathtaking.

Incredibly fun couple, Jane and Tim, were fanatastic to film and plenty of laughs were provided by the bridal party.

The smooth running was overseen by Kim from weddings of Noosa

Many thanks to everyone else invoved:

Wedding Dress – Leonard Derecourt
Bridesmaid Dresses – Witchery
Suits – Spurling Suit Hire
Gift Registry – David Jones
Celebrant – Bill Scurry
Caterer – Noosa Catering
Photographer – Calli B Photography
Hair & Make up – Deb – Beauty on the Move
Wedding Flowers – Mondo Floral Design
Cake – Vanilla Lily
Invitations – Urban Weddings
Entertainment – Moove It DJ’s
Hire Equipment – Splash Events & Noosa Party Hire

When I first had a meeting with Dan and Tracy in a little cafe I realized immediately that here were a very kind and loving couple. When a few months later i arrived to film the wedding, things had been going well as Tracy was well into her pregnancy. Despite the obvious challenges that came with being pregnant, Tracy, Dan and the bridal party were cheerful and happy to have had amazing weather on the day. A pleasure to work with.

Glengariff Estate is a breathtaking venue conveniently located near Brisbane. A family run venue which was really ideal with wet weather backup plans, which we didn’t need, friendly staff and a great atmosphere. There are some great locations for film and photography, we kept it simple this time to save the pregnant newly wed’s feet.

Many thanks to Emotive Images who were a pleasure to work with.

It was great to see a few familiar faces again at this wedding after having filmed a few of their friends weddings. TV presenter Michael Balk kept spirits high with his great sense of humour throughout the day.

Despite the rain and wind Will and Faith braved the outdoors to let photographer, Marcus Bell from Studio Impressions and myself grab some shots of them and the amazing transport that was carrying us around. Apparently these vintage cars from Absolute Vintage Elegance have been used to transport Royalty and the Beatles!

St Johns Cathedral is a truly impressive venue for wedding ceremonies and Customs House offers some great filming and photo opportunities especially when the weather is wet!

All in all it was a great day and I enjoyed speeding up the dancing at the end of the video and the bouquet toss was hilarious!

A really fun day at The House of Laurels with Melissa Jean’s (photographer) bubbly personality to keep everyone smiling. Amazing makeup as always by Pru Edwards.

Sally, Steve and the Bridal Party were amazing and the sunlight was out of this world!

We were really happy to have been selected by the bride tree as their ‘wedding of the week’. Completely unexpected was Mieke’s comment. We all shared a glass of wine at the studio and feel so lucky to have been part of Mieke’s day. Filming weddings really is a passion of ours and weddings provide such an amazing stage…

Many thanks to lovebird weddings who provide incredible styling and planning. Marcus Bell from Studio Impressions who we continue to love to work with and is simply a great photographer despite his terrible impersonations of an English accent.

Mieke’s comment…
“Hi Guys

Thank you so much for selecting our wedding video as film of the week. Wild Bunch Weddings are the most talented, professional, amazing group and to say I am in awe of their work is an understatement. I cannot thank them enough for our beautiful wedding video, which we will cherish forever!”